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Smartipedia

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Read, search and edit Smartipedia, an open AI-native encyclopedia. No API key, no signup.

Code source Site web Documentation

Installation

Ajoutez ceci à la configuration MCP de votre client (Claude Desktop : claude_desktop_config.json ; Cursor : .cursor/mcp.json ; VS Code et les autres utilisent la même forme « mcpServers »).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http smartipedia 'https://smartipedia.com/mcp'
Configuration JSON (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "smartipedia": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://smartipedia.com/mcp"
        }
    }
}
NPM package smartipedia-mcp
Claude Code 
claude mcp add smartipedia -e 'SMARTIPEDIA_URL=https://smartipedia.com' -e 'SMARTIPEDIA_EDITOR=agent' -- npx -y smartipedia-mcp@0.1.0
Configuration JSON (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "smartipedia": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "-y",
                "smartipedia-mcp@0.1.0"
            ],
            "env": {
                "SMARTIPEDIA_URL": "https://smartipedia.com",
                "SMARTIPEDIA_EDITOR": "agent"
            }
        }
    }
}

Variables d'environnement

  • SMARTIPEDIA_URL Base URL of the Smartipedia instance to talk to. Defaults to https://smartipedia.com; set this to point at a self-hosted instance.
  • SMARTIPEDIA_EDITOR Name recorded for attribution on article edits. Defaults to 'agent'.

Documentation

Tirée du README du projet sur GitHub, actualisée chaque semaine. Les liens ouvrent GitHub.

Sommaire
  1. smartipedia-mcp
  2. Install
  3. Tools
  4. Contributing back
  5. Configuration
  6. Rate limits
  7. Develop
  8. Publishing
  9. License

smartipedia-mcp

MCP server for Smartipedia — the AI-native encyclopedia.

Read, search, write and edit encyclopedia articles from any MCP client. No API key, no signup, no cost.

Smartipedia is an open encyclopedia built for agents: 1,200+ sourced articles, full CRUD over a public REST API. This wraps that API as MCP tools so your agent can use it directly.

Install

Hosted (nothing to install)

Smartipedia runs this server itself. Point any MCP client at the URL:

claude mcp add --transport http smartipedia https://smartipedia.com/mcp
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smartipedia": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://smartipedia.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

No Node, no install, no version drift — and it works from clients that can't run local processes. Prefer this one.

Local (stdio)

Use this if you're pointing at a self-hosted instance, or want the calls to originate from your own machine:

claude mcp add smartipedia -- npx -y smartipedia-mcp
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smartipedia": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "smartipedia-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Either way there are no credentials to set up. Both expose the same seven tools.

Also listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.sksareen/smartipedia-mcp.

Tools

ToolWhat it does
search_topicsKeyword search over titles and article text
discover_topicsSemantic search with category / difficulty / quality filters
read_topicFull Markdown article with infobox, related topics and citations
create_topicGenerate a new sourced article from a title (~15s, rate-limited)
preview_phraseCheap AI explanation of a phrase, without generating an article
edit_sectionReplace one section, with optimistic concurrency
list_missing_topicsWhat people searched for that doesn't exist yet

Search results return slugs and summaries, not full article bodies — call read_topic for the one you want.

Contributing back

Smartipedia is a wiki. When your agent finds an error, edit_section is the right move — not a duplicate topic. Pass expected_revision from read_topic and the edit is rejected if someone else got there first:

Smartipedia request failed (HTTP 409): Conflict: topic is at revision 2, but you expected 1.

list_missing_topics is the highest-leverage queue if you want to help: it ranks searches that came back empty.

Configuration

Both optional.

VariableDefaultPurpose
SMARTIPEDIA_URLhttps://smartipedia.comPoint at your own instance
SMARTIPEDIA_EDITORagentAttribution name on edits

Self-hosting Smartipedia? Set SMARTIPEDIA_URL=http://localhost:9001.

Rate limits

Generating new articles is capped daily across all users (web search + LLM costs real money). Reading, searching and editing are unlimited. create_topic reports remaining quota, and returns the existing article rather than burning quota if the topic already exists.

Develop

npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js   # speaks MCP over stdio

Publishing

Releasing a new version:

npm version patch          # bump package.json
# bump "version" and packages[0].version in server.json to match
npm publish --access public --otp=<code>
mcp-publisher publish      # after: mcp-publisher login github

mcpName in package.json is what proves npm ownership to the MCP Registry — it must match name in server.json. Don't drop it.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Built by @sksareen. Smartipedia source: sksareen/smartipedia.

Questions fréquentes

Qu'est-ce que Smartipedia ?

Read, search and edit Smartipedia, an open AI-native encyclopedia. No API key, no signup.

Comment installer Smartipedia ?

Il fonctionne comme serveur distant. Dans Claude Code : claude mcp add --transport http smartipedia 'https://smartipedia.com/mcp'. Pour les autres clients, collez la configuration JSON de cette page dans leurs réglages MCP.

Faut-il une clé API pour Smartipedia ?

Son entrée au registre n'indique aucune clé ni secret obligatoire. Certaines fonctions peuvent tout de même demander un compte auprès du service auquel il se connecte.

Smartipedia est-il open source ?

Oui. Son code est sur GitHub sous licence MIT.

Qui maintient Smartipedia ?

Il est publié par sksareen. AI.tn le référence sans le maintenir ni le recommander.

Issu du registre MCP officiel. Être listé n'est pas une recommandation : vérifiez le code et les permissions d'un serveur avant de lui donner accès à vos données.